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Maternity Hall Gardens

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May 1965. Image shows springtime flower beds in the Maternity Hall gardens viewed from in front of Morley Hall. The parade of shops up Scatcherd Hill can be seen, as can buildings along Troy Road which overlook this area. The most well-known of these was the building named the Observer Office which originated as the New Town School, ie. the Sunday School building of the Old Chapel which Samuel Stead converted into his Morley Observer printing works and offices for the newspaper. He was able to buy this building when the new Sunday School and Church Hall was opened on Commercial Street in 1900 opposite the library. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive.